Melissa Melendez

Melissa Melendez (17 February 1968-) was a member of the California State Assembly (R-67) from 3 December 2012, succeeding Kevin Jeffries.

Biography
Melissa Melendez was born in Youngstown, Ohio on 17 February 1968, and she served in the US Navy while attending Chaminade University in Hawaii. She served as a reconnaissance plane pilot and a Russian language translator during the Cold War, and she took an academic position at Chaminade after retiring from the military. In 2008, she earned her MBA from the University of Phoenix in Arizona, and she was elected to the Lake Elsinore City Council that same year. In 2012, she was elected to the California State Assembly as the Republican Party representative from the 67th district.